as he is determined his firstborn should be named Shazam.

Ha! Oh dear. I shouldn't mention this to DH, as he'll want to procreate just so he can use this.

It is actually a famous name. Are they WWII buffs, perchance?

I don't think so. There was some mention of it being the name of an explorer... And yet, I'm fairly sure that'll be a the surname of a male explorer and not the first name of a baby girl. Maybe I'm just being terribly closed-minded with regard to naming kids.

I didn't go to the dentist from the time I was 15 until I was over 30, as the home town dentist I had grown up with was the old style painful type.

Went to a dentist in a Mall. I was pleasantly surprised by how far dentistry had come.

Good morning, Buffistas! It is a wonderfully overcast day here on the west coast. I am gathering energy to stumble to the kitchen for some tea and oatmeal. Driving in I told myself I wasn't going to even open Outlook until noon today. Darned if I already screwed that one up. Ah, well.

Jars, why don't you choose to believe she was named after a pirate: [link]

I might be able to get behind a pirate name.

Good morning, Suzi!

Jars, why don't you choose to believe she was named after a pirate

I DO choose! That's so cool! Yup, now I can fully apprecciate the name. Well, appreciate it more anyway...

I'm totally going to buy her a baby-grow with a skull and crossbones.

Huh. My company was named the 54th best place to work by Fortune.

Temps here have warmed up to -11 with a windchill of -25 instead of -28.

Awesome! All babies should be named after pirates! They could be called The Dread Baby Roberts, and Blackbeard, and Jack Sparrow, and Captain Blood, and Moll Cutpurse, and so on and so forth! It would make for a brave new Kindergarten era!

I seem to have become more or less blase about stupid names for kids, since so many of our kids have !!! names. (Prince, Mai-Tai, Baby, Porsche, BJ, Boss, James Bond, Mickey Mouse, VIP etc etc).

If you're not a believer it stays bread and wine.

If you ARE a believer you're not going to be making snacks out of one of your most sacred rituals.

See, you'd think this would be how it would pan out. But a couple of months ago I was tutoring a wee (Catholic) girl, and she was munching on some weird snack in a bag. It looked like a giant, ricepapery version of the stuff you get after you've cut sequins out, you know? And I was baffled.

It was offcuts of The Host.

!!!

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Sorry, also meant to say (1) Susan, I think your wrath was entirely reasonable; (2) The cupcakes sound teh yum and (3) Suzi, I'm totally psyched about your tattoo! It's making me feel all get-more-tattoos! (Which, okay, is a little voice in the back of my head all the time, but still...)

The Dread Baby Roberts

Dibs.

(Prince, Mai-Tai, Baby, Porsche, BJ, Boss, James Bond, Mickey Mouse, VIP etc etc)

And now Halsey seems like a wonderful name.